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TIL There’s an airline that charges by your total weight, so fat people pay more than thin people

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eJyg TIL that when famed reclusive author Thomas Pynchon appeared as himself on The Simpsons, he refused to speak one of the lines in which he was supposed to call Homer a “fat ass,” arguing he couldn’t possibly say anything bad about his “role model”
rXN4 TIL Coolio was robbed by his “fans” at a concert in England. They all moved when he attempted to stage dive and then stole his shoes, jewelry, and accessories.
d8J69 TIL the US Air Force uses enormous anime-style swords to honor officers
BKgy TIL of the Wereth 11, a group of eleven black soldiers separated from their battalion during the first few days of the Battle of the Bulge. Even though the eleven men surrendered to the Germans, they were taken to a nearby field where they were tortured and then murdered.
LDL9 TIL common vaccines used on “hundreds of millions of people” were developed from lung tissue cells of a three month old, female human fetus aborted in Sweden in 1962, and it’s not clear if the mother gave her permission